![]() ![]() Remember Gamora 1.0 (Zoe Saldana)? We see the character killed in order to push forward the journey of Thanos. Inspired by the Kyle Rayner Green Lantern arc where his dead girlfriend was put in his fridge, it's a common story device in many movies and TV shows, and something the MCU has marketed in before. Fridging is the colloquial term for what Gail Simone termed as the women in refrigerators trope: a woman is killed or injured to push forward the narrative of a male character and their development. The choice to kill Maria seems only to serve a classic - and repetitive - narrative trope that was coined in the comics criticism space. So, unless Hill's family buried a very believable LMD, it's time to believe Cobie Smulders' many retrospective farewell interviews and say goodbye to Maria Hill. It's there that we get a terse conversation between Fury and Maria Hill's understandably devastated mother Elizabeth (Juliet Stevenson). ![]() Hill's death is all but confirmed as we see Fury kneeling over her body and then later on we watch her casket being delivered to American soil for burial. It could even be something as simple as a life model decoy (a tactic that Hill used in the Secret Invasion comic and Fury used in the previously mentioned Winter Soldier).Īt least that seemed like it might be the case until the first 20 minutes of Secret Invasion Episode 2. Could it be that this is a fake death ala Nick Fury in Captain America: The Winter Soldier? Maybe this could be a part of a classic Marvel espionage long con. Was Hill a Skrull and the real Hill was elsewhere? We never saw her transform back into one of the green-headed aliens, so that seemed unlikely. The choice to kill the character that got fans talking and theorizing heavily. That and the fact that she’s one of the few characters from the comic run that was meant to play a significant role in the story. That's one of the reasons many viewers were shocked to see Hill unceremoniously killed off by big bad and Skrull rebel leader, Gravik (Kingsley Ben-Adir), at the end of Secret Invasion's premiere. Since her introduction in 2012, she's outlived heroes like Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg), villains like Loki (Tom Hiddleston) - at least the first iteration of him -, and has garnered a huge base of passionate fans. was a pillar of strength for Fury during his many trials and travails, and was an integral part of the Avengers Initiative. The former Deputy Director and Commander of S.H.I.E.L.D. While many of the franchise's biggest heroes have turned on each other and the US government - for good reason - Maria has, after a few early disagreements, always stood by her boss and friend, Nick Fury (Samuel L. In the annals of the MCU's storied history it's unlikely that you'll find a more loyal and unwavering soldier than Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders). This piece contains spoilers for Secret Invasion Episode 2. ![]()
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